If it's like that then you don't know any world leader. Look at it this way The U.S. and the U.N. defeated Iraq in the first Gulf war when Iraq surendered, the U.N. came up with a couple of resolutions and as long as Iraq followed these resolutions Saddam would stay in power. The war with Iraq was a continuation of the old war because Iraq was not abiding by those resolutions. It's that simple. Was it worth it or not is the choice of the Americans.